La Liberté….. & The Social Network
The year 1830. The French Romantic artist, Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, created his masterpiece ‘La Liberté guidant le peuple’ (or Liberty Leading the People) in the autumn. The painting, commemorating […]
Koushik Das (born on May 16, 1976 in Kolkata) is a career journalist. Based in the Indian capital of New Delhi, Koushik writes mainly about foreign policies and current geopolitical issues, and rarely about other topics. His own political ideas are highly influenced by Antonio Gramsci, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Michael Oakeshott and others. English philosopher and political theorist Oakeshott (Dec 11, 1901-Dec 19, 1990) says that “in political activity, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea. There is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place, nor appointed destination. But we have to keep afloat”. (Rationalism in Politics, 1962) As a student of Political Science, Koushik loves to share his views on issues, which have great impacts on his thought process (and also on India, South Asia and of course on the global community), with his readers through his website – Boundless Ocean of Politics. By doing so, he tries to keep himself afloat. You will find some of his articles in https://inserbia.info/today/ (https://inserbia.info/today/author/kou_das13_i/), as he has been trying to assess the global geopolitics since 2003. You can also mail him at kousdas@gmail.com
The year 1830. The French Romantic artist, Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, created his masterpiece ‘La Liberté guidant le peuple’ (or Liberty Leading the People) in the autumn. The painting, commemorating […]
When fundamentalism has started posing a serious threat to the global community, an immanent flame of secularism and feminist theory has been extinguished. Saba Mahmood – the Pakistan-born American anthropologist […]
A fresh controversy has been triggered in the US, as some Americans have questioned President Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Gina Haspel as the director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). […]
The rest of 2018 promises to be very busy in Austria. Between the beginning of Sebastian Kurz’s first term in office as Europe’s youngest head of state in a coalition […]
As expected, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has been elected President of Russia for the fourth time. The Central Election Commission (of Russia) confirmed on Sunday night that the strongman received more […]
People across Japan observed a moment of silence at 2:46pm (local time) on March 11 to mark the seventh anniversary of Tsunami that devastated the Asia-Pacific nation in 2011. A […]
The Islamic Republic of Iran has sent a strong message to the US and European nations. Tehran expressed its commitment and readiness to abandon the production of nuclear armaments, saying […]
The two neighbouring superpowers tend to exhibit markedly different cultures – political and social! While China has made some changes in its Constitution in order to allow President Xi Jinping […]
India is worried about the current political situation in Sri Lanka, where clashes between people belonging to two different religious practices have triggered a fresh tension. The Indian Ministry of […]
There used to be a raillery of threat to one another…..it went to such an extent that they earned nicknames of the ‘madman’ and the ‘little rocket man’. None could […]